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[-] artifex@piefed.zip 6 points 16 hours ago

There was a stretch of the Florida coast that had metric in the late 90s and early 2000s, but people kept stealing the speed limit signs. They also had a problem with people misunderstanding 100kph (about 60mph) and doing 100mph instead.

[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

“Misunderstanding”. They just wanted to speed

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